List of countries by area

Here is a list of the countries of the world sorted by area. Only sovereign states are numbered, but non-sovereign territories are also included for purposes of comparison. Areas include inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Claims in Antarctica are not included.

includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967